A desperate university student on her way to an exam risked her own life and sparked chaos on a railway line when her train set off without her and she sprinted a mile down the track to catch it

The 34-year old Lancashire woman had been forced to get off and buy a ticket at a railway station kiosk after her bank card was declined by a conductor's chip and pin machine.

But as she was about to get back on the train it pulled out of Burnley Central in Lancashire - and she realised she had left her dissertation and other revision papers on board.